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George Santayana
Profession : Philosopher
Birth : December 16, 1863
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The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
George Santayana
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
George Santayana
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
George Santayana
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
George Santayana
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
George Santayana
Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
George Santayana
The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
George Santayana
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
George Santayana
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
George Santayana
The Bible is literature, not dogma.
George Santayana
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
George Santayana
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
George Santayana
It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
George Santayana
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana
To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.
George Santayana
Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
George Santayana
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
George Santayana
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
George Santayana
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George Santayana
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
George Santayana
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